Golden Calf 2009

The Golden Calf sculpture is created from twigs and branches collected from the hills of Ein Hod. They are bound together with gold-colored string bought in South Tel Aviv.

The biblical Golden Calf, heavy and wrought in gold, was transformed by me into a fragile sculpture. Most of its volume is the air, the emptiness, the lack of material.

The sculpture is made of the most natural, obvious material that I could think of and find around me. 

I see the world as a connection of lines, and it is the most primary and basic form I use when I create something.   

The crucial point in this sculpture is the junction between the creator and nature,
where the raw, natural material and the man-made material need each other.
The tension is at this point, where we seek to create something new.

The more the Golden Calf sculpture received form and became alive, the more I started the process of my separation from it. The understanding and acceptance of what does (not) remain is not as important as what I have gained and learned throughout the process of making it.

Naamah Berkovitz

Spring 2009